| Description |
xvii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Redefining British theatre history |
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Redefining British theatre history.
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| Contents |
Redefining British theater history / Peter Holland -- Theorizing practice / W.B. Worthen -- History of histories : from Flecknoe to Nicoll / Peter Holland -- Confessions of an encyclopedist / Dennis Kennedy -- Criteria for evidence : anecdotes in Shakespearean biography, 1709-2000 / Thomas Postlewait -- Decomposing history (why are there so few women in theater history?) / Susan Bennett -- Photography, theater, mnemonics; or, Thirteen ways of looking at a still / Barbara Hodgdon -- Vicarious : theater and the rise of synthetic experience / Joseph Roach -- Zoo stories : "Boundary work" in theater history / Una Chaudhuri -- History plays (in) Britain : dramas, nations and inventing the present / Loren Kruger -- Deus ex machina in the modern theater : theater, history, and theater history / Freddie Rokem -- Improvising/history / Susan Leigh Foster -- Imprint of performance / W.B. Worthen |
| Summary |
Summary: "In a series of essays, several of the most significant figures in the field present a wide-ranging interrogation of the practice of theatre history studies at the present time, raising questions of history and historiography; the bearing of national, sexual, and racial identity on the canons of theatre history; the limits of print and the history of non-textual forms of performance; the intersections between theatre and other forms of commodification; and even the work of performance at the borders of the human."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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English drama -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Kongress
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| Author |
Worthen, William B., 1955-
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Holland, Peter, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2003053618 |
| ISBN |
1403907935 |
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9781403907936 |
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1403907943 |
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9781403907943 |
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